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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Twin planets [[Atrios]] and [[Zeos]] are locked in a long-running war. The young [[Princess Astra]], nominal leader of Atrios, is appalled at the devastation, but [[Marshal of Atrios|the Marshal]], in charge of the war, actually possesses the power. The Marshal secretly confesses to his aide-de-camp [[Shapp]] that they are losing. He is desperate for the edge that will bring victory. On instruction from an unseen entity, he leads Astra on a fool's errand into a trap, where she is abducted and | ====EPISODE ONE==== | ||
The sixth and final segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Atrios. Twin planets [[Atrios]] and [[Zeos]] are locked in a long-running war. The young [[Princess Astra]], nominal leader of Atrios, is appalled at the devastation, but [[Marshal of Atrios|the Marshal]], in charge of the war, actually possesses the power. The Marshal secretly confesses to his aide-de-camp [[Shapp]] that they are losing. He is desperate for the edge that will bring victory. On instruction from an unseen entity, he leads Astra on a fool's errand into a trap, where she is abducted and transmatted away. | |||
[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] land on Atrios, and [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] is soon buried in rubble from a Zeon aerial bombardment. | [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] land on Atrios, and [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] is soon buried in rubble from a Zeon aerial bombardment. The Marshal finds them, and believes them to be spies, along with Astra's lover, [[Merak]]. The Doctor tricks the Marshal to calling for K9, who knocks out the lights to let them escape. The find the TARDIS gone. | ||
====EPISODE TWO==== | |||
Merak has followed them, and they find Astra gone. K9, meanwhile, is lured away to be recycled. The Marshal is told by an unseen force, who tells him to reat the Doctor and Romana as guests. The Marshal implores the Doctor to assist Atrios. The Doctor proposes a shield that will stop the Zeons from attacking, but the Marshall insists he create a weapon for total victory. | |||
Desperate to stop the Marshal's attack, the Doctor uses the five segments of the [[Key to Time]], plus an artificial sixth segment made from [[chronodyne]], to generate a temporary [[time loop]] around the Marshal's ship. They uncover the ultimate truth: a third party, known as [[the Shadow]], is manipulating the entire war from his enormous vessel midway between the two planets. An agent of the [[Black Guardian]], the Shadow has been watching the final segment of the Key (Princess Astra herself), setting the war in motion, employing the [[renegade Time Lord]] [[Drax]] to construct Mentalis, and simply waiting while the Doctor risked life and limb to find the first five segments. | Romana notices that the Marshal is acting under an outside influence when he accidentally shows a small device on his neck neck after flipping out when the Doctor runs to save K9 from the furnace. Afterwards, the Doctor asks the Marshal to send him to Zeos, the Marshal refuses. The Doctor reveals to the Romana that something to probably blocking Zeos. Astra appears on a television and states that the Zeons will destroy Atrios if the Marshal does not surrender. The Doctor is trapped by two people in masks in a transmat. | ||
====EPISODE THREE==== | |||
The unseen entity tells Marshal that the war will stop, while the entity traps him in his domain. It calls itself the Shadow, who reveals that he has his TARDIS. The Shadow asks the Doctor to open his TARDIS and bring out the other five segements and then leaves. The Doctor decides to search for the sixth segment. Merak, meanwhile, has transmatted to the Zeos. Astra is on the ship in chains, being asked by the Shadow where the sixth segment is. Romana and K9 transmat to Zeos, following Merak. | |||
Shapp finds himself with the Doctor after after being transmatted. K9 finds the commandant of the Zeon forces, which is actually a supercomputer named Mentalis. The Marshal, meanwhile, has decided to attack Zeos. They find that Mentalis has been instructed to conceal any information on Astra. The Marshal prepares to attack Zeos. | |||
====EPISODE FOUR==== | |||
They learn that if it is destroyed, it will destroy Zeos and Atrios - a concept known as the Armageddon Factor. The computer can't counterattack becaus it's been told that the war waris over. They discover the Marshal, in a last-ditch effort, is piloting the last Atrian warship to destroy the Zeon capital with a nuclear missile. The attack will set the mutual destruction in motion. | |||
Astra is hypnotised by the Shadow and a projection of her lures Merak, and h begins falling. The Doctor is, meanwhile, trying to reinstruct Mentalis, but accidentally triggers the computer into waiting for an attack to blow itself up immediately. The computer becomes mindless by destroying its own control center. | |||
Desperate to stop the Marshal's attack, the Doctor uses the five segments of the [[Key to Time]], plus an artificial sixth segment made from [[chronodyne]], to generate a temporary [[time loop]] around the Marshal's ship. | |||
Meanwhile, K9 is hypnotised by a small device which takes the guise of a distress call. K9 is then transported away where he is reprogrammed. The TARDIS head to the third third planet, and the Shadow laughs that the Key to Time is his. | |||
====EPISODE FIVE==== | |||
The Doctor, Astra and Romana are on the third planet, and each member is separated from each other. The Doctor finds another renegade Time Lord, Drax, in the corridors of the third planet | |||
They uncover the ultimate truth: a third party, known as [[the Shadow]], is manipulating the entire war from his enormous vessel midway between the two planets. An agent of the [[Black Guardian]], the Shadow has been watching the final segment of the Key (Princess Astra herself), setting the war in motion, employing the [[renegade Time Lord]] [[Drax]] to construct Mentalis, and simply waiting while the Doctor risked life and limb to find the first five segments. | |||
The Doctor persuades Drax to assist him and they foil the Shadow's plans. When the artificial time loop expires, the war rockets are deflected by a force field, destroying the Shadow and his ship instead. | The Doctor persuades Drax to assist him and they foil the Shadow's plans. When the artificial time loop expires, the war rockets are deflected by a force field, destroying the Shadow and his ship instead. | ||
